Advice To The Grub-street Verse-writers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ| Ye poets ragged and forlorn | A |
| Down from your garrets haste | B |
| Ye rhymers dead as soon as born | A |
| Not yet consign'd to paste | B |
| - | |
| I know a trick to make you thrive | C |
| O 'tis a quaint device | D |
| Your still born poems shall revive | C |
| And scorn to wrap up spice | D |
| - | |
| Get all your verses printed fair | E |
| Then let them well be dried | F |
| And Curll must have a special care | E |
| To leave the margin wide | F |
| - | |
| Lend these to paper sparing Pope | G |
| And when he sets to write | H |
| No letter with an envelope | G |
| Could give him more delight | H |
| - | |
| When Pope has fill'd the margins round | I |
| Why then recall your loan | J |
| Sell them to Curll for fifty pound | I |
| And swear they are your own | J |
Jonathan Swift
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